u/Asleep_Pop3993

There are not enough credits to take everything I want, but my number 1 goal is med school.
What is more important for colleges that feed into med schools (my top choice now is Johns Hopkins)?

- Take as many upper-level math courses as possible (I love math so may take two my freshman year to include as many as possible over my 4 years)

- Include classes like Biomedical Science instead of extra math classes or foreign language (or maybe drop one of the music electives)

- Take 3 years of foreign language (I would love to skip taking foreign language if possible - I am learning Japanese on my own but my school only offers Spanish, French and German)

- Take a lot of AP and Honors classes rather than getting overall higher GPA possibly taking regular level classes

- Keep music classes in my schedule to show interests outside academics (this is also my social outlet)

There are not enough credits to take everything I want, but my number 1 goal is med school.
What is more important for JH pre-med?

- Take as many upper-level math courses as possible (I love math so may take two my freshman year to include as many as possible over my 4 years)

- Include classes like Biomedical Science instead of extra math classes or foreign language (or maybe drop one of the music electives)

- Take 3 years of foreign language (I would love to skip this)

- Take a lot of AP and Honors classes rather than getting overall higher GPA possibly taking regular level classes

- Keep with band and choir to show interests outside academics

We got a Carmax offer on our 2018 Honda Odyssey today that was way lower than expected. We went to a dealership across the street (which had the car we wanted to buy) to see their trade-in numbers. We did not mention the carmax offer at all and the offer was in my pocket on my person while we were in the dealership.

The salesman came back and said he would “match carmax’s offer” and put that exact offer on the table with the carmax letterhead. I did not realize dealerships had databases that see carmax offers. Is this normal? How is this not illegal / collusion?

(note for the curious: We only went to Carmax for a baseline in case they were a bit higher than the dealerships offer - we've usually had good luck with this. Carmax was VERY busy, even bringing us the wrong car's quote and keys at first, so when they finally brought the right quote we just left & didn't ask questions even though it was way lower than our research showed. Later when driving off, I saw that it said something about feeling the transmission slipping, but we get it serviced regularly at a consistent dealership and they, nor we, have identified anything like that. I wanted to go back and confirm if this was a mistake due to the chaos there, but my husband had had enough of the craziness and did not want to deal with tracking the tech down to verify the mistake because he wanted to get on with the car buying part.)